The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-09-22
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
WISE PUBLIC SENTIMENT SHAP.
ED LARt.ELY By THE PRESS.

ED LARGELY BY THE PRESS.
The Views of Our Contemporaries on
Passing Public Events and Questions
of Interest.
If it be true that the old part are cor
rupt, it follows that the men who compose
them are corrupt also. That being true
there is very little hope of making pure
party out of corrupt erial.-[Spirit of
the Age.
DIR. McGlynn says ''hell is State" He
fails to state, however, whether land can
be held there in fee simple, or whether old
Satan, aided by some Internal anti poverty
society, has established a community of
interest," Petersburg 1ndex-Appeal.
In old fashioned times fortune used to
knock at every mans door as she went
the rounds, but the old gal has cotton so
won't come inside of your yard unless
you've got door bell Il Webster's Weekly.
The Anarchists who are so blatant about
annihilating the government always object
to the presence of reporters at their meet
1ngs. They differ with Dogberry. They
do not wish to be written down an ass, +"
or worse, even if they are Philadelphia
CALL
We understand there is movement in
the two towns towards joint stock COM
pany for the purpose of publishing daily
and weekly newspaper. We further learn
that 1T is Democratic in principle and is
being organized to 'SboOm the town" Al
ready, in the South, we have too many
papers and too few good ones Winston
Sentinel.
What would the late Gov. John NJ
Morehead, the great promoter and founder
of the North Carolina railroad, say to find
Durham, which remained so long an insig-
nificant station on his line of road, now
pierced by four other railroads? What
would the Hon. Calvin Graves, who, as a
member of the General Assembly, east th5
deciding vote in favor of internal improve
ments, say TO see ''little Durham" rail
We must Judge a man 10y his ACTIONS,
and we can only conclude that Governor
Foraker thinks that the best way to OBJ
literate all memory of the rebellion is for
US to seize all Soatherners by the throat
and ask them if they are not sorry that
they were id rebels" If that is not
sufficient, shake captured flag in their
faces. with the remark that they were W, II
and deservedly thrashed, and that if they
don't look out, the operation will have to
be repeated.
President Cleveland naturally has not
carried out Governor Foraker's ideas of
justice and he is accordingly attacked as
an enemy to the soldier and the North
New York Star
One of the things in politics that is
about as certain as anything in politics can
be, is that the next Congress will repeal
the tobacco tax. And that will help
great deal. We poor asses who are sup
posed to want the internal revenue system
abolished BECAUSE, in the first place, we
want s'free drinks and free chaws," and in
the second place, because we are protec-
tionisis at heart, are making little head
way after all. Twenty one internal revenue
districts have been abolished within the
past six months; if the tobacco tax is re-
pealed in the next six it will show that we
are hacking the thing to pieces piecemeal.
That is not as good as abolshing it out
right at one stroke, but it is better than
doing nothing with it at all. After the
tobacco tax the brandy tax will go
[statesyille Landmark.